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4 MAIL TRIIUNE, Medford', Or. I Thursday, July 2, 1959 llESFOSDeriTEIBUNS teijuu in Southern Oregoa Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dniljr except Saturday by MJJJf UitL PRINTING CO S3 Worth sir St Ph SP 2-C141 ROBLHT W RUHL, Editor RERB GREY Advertising Manager GIRALU LAIBAKI. ouiinoi (I ERIC W AiAX.N Jo Man gins Editor CARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teles; Editor KIOLARO JEWETT Snorts Editor OUVE STARCEER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSOW, circulation mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered a semd class matter at March 3, 1897 ST mSCKIPTION RATES Ms! i In Advance. Coot 10c Dsil- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Dally and Sunday mos. 8.0C Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 KunHav Onlv Ona vear $4.20 alv Cmrrimr In Advance Medford. , Ashland. Central Point. Eacle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shadv Cove Rogue Riv- r Talent and on motor routes. Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and fcuiuiay l mo, im Carrier and Dealer copy lOe All Terms Cash In Ad vane Official Paver of City f Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International run Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Afvrtisin Renresentative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO, INC. Of- in New York. Chlcaeo. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PURLISHERS -'ASSOCIATION MATIOHAl EDITORIAL lAS,cS"N Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 1. 1949 (Saturday) Mr. ar.d Mrs. W. L. Walls ell the Medford hotel to A. I. Arnsberg of Portland. Al Bradford Is elected presi dent of the Medford Active club. SO YEARS AGO July 2, 1939 (Sunday) Harry Thurman, Richard Mole and Reed Cox are in business with their diving hel met made from an old hot water tank. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Nu merous reports of gold in the hills, where the prospectors h'aint are filtering into these diggings dally." SO YEARS AGO July 2. 1929 (Tuesday) Three auto wrecks occur on Main st. within a single hour. Grants Pass is agog over sews of a rich mine strike. 40 YEARS AGO July 2, 1919 (Wednesday) Local telephone girls plan to go on strike. Mayor Gates is feted as guest of honor at the Ashland rodeo. SO YEARS AGO July 2. 1909 (Friday) Work is to start soon on the new hotel at Crater Lake. Plans are being completed for access to the top of Mt. Ashland via wheels and burros. Vhsfs Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or is is good. 1. On ships, is the port light red, or green? 2. Quote the first three words of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. 3. What is another name for Leonardo da Vinci's painting "La Gioconda"? 4. What does the phrase "Vmna flr1" imparl? 5. What do these men have in common: Grover Alexan der, Denton Cy Young, Chris ty Mathewson, and Walter Johnson? 6. What military decoration is conferred for conspicuous gallantry and intrepedity in action, at the risk of life, above and beyond the call of dutv? 7. Was the District of Co lumbia ever larger than it is now? 8. What did the ancient Egyptians use for stationery? 9. Who was the first Presi dent to take his inaugural ride in an automobile? 10. Which of these animals is largest American moose, caribou, or reindeer? Answers: 1. Red. 2. "In the beginning." 3. Mona Lisa. 4. In good faith. 5. All famous base ball pitchers. 6. Congressional Medal of Honor. 7. Yes. (A portion was ceded to Virginia). 7. Papyrus. 9. Woodrow Wil son. 10. American Moose. INS CO-FOUNDER DIES Washington (DPD - Arnold Kruckman, a co-founder of the International News Serv ice, died at 78 here on Tues day. He helped William Ran dolph Hearst organize the INS in 1908. The wire service was consolidated with, the United Press into United Press Inter national year ago last May. 1 Notes' on IV Seattle and Puget Sound Downtown Seattle, narrow strip of land between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, has to speak. As a result it proportion of fairly tall Pacific Coast city except ban Francisco-r-which also has similar limitations on its spread. As a result, Seattle's of Puget Sound, is an impressive one, and attrac tive. For some reason we've never been able to define, however, it somehow lacks the same glamor, the same elan, the same sense of sophis tication as San Francisco. But Seattle is growing and how it is. grow ing! With statehood achieved by Alaska, it will continue to grow, and ZOOMING down from cannot but notice the narrow valley floor, all the way to Lake Washington and on to Mercer Island, where we were the guests of relatives. The famed floating into Seattle, built some cism that it was too ambitious a project, now is barely adequate to handle the traffic load, and there is much talk about one, or possibly two new such bndges. The lake itself is now almost entirely ringed with communities. At its where Boeing makes the big 707 jet transport planes. They take off from there with a roar, circle on their first flight, and then land for final outfitting at Boeing field m south Seattle. ...... ZITHER lakeside communities have mush- roomed out into what amounts to one con tinuous settlement around the lake. Everywhere one finds huge shopping centers, with acres of parking, where one may buy everything from a. new sports car to a bottle of whisky (the latter without a state license for the first time, effective last month, we were told). , Mercer Island itself, ong and perhaps a mile choice residential sites rimmed mostly with private homes, constructed in the privacy of groves of trees, and reached by winding lanes. But in the center part of the island, big subdivisions are going The island, now, with ation, has its growing lon, sewer and water problems, and so on. lhey are complicated due to dents have refused to into a city, which could these services than can FROM our host's home on the west side of the island, .we had a magnificent view of the lake, of the hilly ridge separating the lake from the business district of Seattle, and, in the far dis tance on clear days, the magnificent, snow crested peaks of the Olympic range across the sound. y ' '. One day we took one of the state-operated ferries from the city to Bainbridge island across an arm of the sound, which despite the 30 or 40 minute voyage is largely a "bedroom" community for Seattle, particularly family comes to loaf and swim, and father com mutes to the office on the ferry. . Much of Bainbridge state, as the summer and year-around homes mostly cling to the wooded shores. But much of it, too, is agricultural, as for dinner, purchased in small, shy Indian girl at where they were picked, . DO ATS, of course, have long held sway on Puget Sound. But even here there is evidence of the nationwide boom in boating. We saw everything from a six-foot dingy to a 60-foot yacht capable of sea voyages. ' .tsacK on Lake Washington we watched (and listened) in fascination as the hydroplanes tuned up a mile or so away, skimming the water, throw ing up great "rooster-tails" of foam behind them, and deluging the lake with noise from their pow erful motors. Billboards boast of Seattle as the "home of the hydros," as of course it is, during the Gold Cup races in August. Some day we hope to find the time to explore the Olympic Peninsula to the west 6f the sound, including Olympic National park, and the romantic-sounding towns which rim the sound and the Straits of Juan de Fuca. V Seattle, to Portland DUT the limits of a vacation are not readily expandable, and we headed south for Port land and a visit to the Centennial. 1 Through Tacoma, and almost as far as Olym pia, one is still caught up in the confusing cross patching of street traffic, but before long one hits the limited-access freeway, and away you scoot, by-passing cities and making enough progress at a steady 60-miles-per-hour to get to Portland in little more than four hours. The trip was broker, only by gawking at jets swooshing through the air near McChord field, at the thousands of acres and buildings at Ft. Lewis adjacent to the highway, and by a visit to the spotless, and interesting, brewery at Olympia. - For the rest, the four-lane highway carried us through green fields and forests, over slight hills, back to the Columbia, through Vancouver, and across the new bridge into Oregon. It was only 2 p.m., and we had no difficulty finding motel space a mile or so from the Cen tennial grounds. E.A. - lo De continued Trip a located on a relatively nowhere to go but up, so appears to have a higher buildings than any other sky line, from the waters probably faster. the Snoqualmie pass one the signs of growth along bndge from Mercer Island years ago under the criti southern tip is Kenton, about six or seven miles wide, is now one of the of the Seattle area. It is up, one after the other. several thousand popu- pains school construc- the fact that the resi incorporate themselves better provide many of the special districts. in the summer, when the is still in its natural the huge strawberries the afternoon from a the side of the field attested. j Dennis the I DON'T CALL RHUBARB PJ Matter of Fact BOB ANDERSON'S HEADACHE Washington - Secretary of the Treasury Robert Ander son has again proved that he is the Eisen aower admin .stration's sole fully effective 1 o b b y ist on Capitol Hill. The proof is the House Ways , a n d Means Com mittee's com- losph ajsod promise on the interest rate problem, an obscure but burning issue which is likely to cause this Congressional session's hot test, longest legislative row. Anderson can accomplish more on Tne Hill tnan any other Eisenhower Cabinet member because of his warm relations with three men, Speaker of the -House Sam Fayburn, . Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, and the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Wilbur Mills. In the pres ent case, the real architect of the interest rate compromise was .the able Mills. Yet even Mills, with all his sense of responsibility, would surely have been tempted to thumb his nose at anyone but Ander son. npHE point directly at issue . was the interest rate the Treasury is permitted to offer on Federal bonds. For dec ades, a maximum rate of 4V4 per cent has been fixed by law, even for the longest term issue. In the present market, the Treasury is quite unable to sell Jong term paper bear ing the statutory rate of in terest. With many tens of billions of government debt to re-finance, Secretary An derson therefore asked for re moval of the ceiling on the interest rate. The Anderson request was a political hot potato of the worst sort, because any rise in the Federal interest rate automatically affects all in terest rates. The grass roots voters could hardly have been less interested. But the con struction industry; the sav ings and loan associations, all marginal small businessmen needing regular lines of credit for their operations, and many other locally powerful special groups, were immediately up in arms. Reprisals were threatened against any one voting for Anderson "and the bankers," (who of course bene fit from higher interest rates). IF MONEY were less tight, the debate that still looms ahead would be less passion ate. No less than ten Senators have told the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Wil liam McChesney Martin, "Give us easier money, and we'll give Anderson his new interest rate right away." But Martin will not ease cred it for fear of price inflation, and he will not support the Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A MINISTER was dismayed to hear that a girl for whom he ii-had. performed the wedding ceremony only three months previous was contemplating a divorce. "What's wrong?" he in quired anxiously. "That fool I married," said the young bride bitterly, "can't play cards." "Is that a fault?" queried the minister. "I wish that none of our young men could play, cards." "You don't understand," continued the bride. "My husband CANT, but he DOES." . . "Two mysteries hinder all efforts to end smog in Los Angeles," writes Ray Duncan. "Nobody knows exactly what smog is, and nobody knows exactly what Los Angeles is." - Jack Benny's definition of a true patriot: a citizen who can whistle "The Star-Spangled Banner'' while paying his income tax." 1939, by Bennett CetX. Distributed by Kiss features Syndicate. Menace p Joseph Alsop government bond market either, both because of infla-tion-fearsand because he does not believe that the expedient would work for long. In these circumstances, An derson had to make the most sobering sort of plea to get anywhere at all on Capitol Hill. He had to point out that approximately three-quarters of the gigantic U. S. gold re serve - about $16,000,000,000 in all is callable in one way or another by foreign govern ments and financial interests overseas. Hence a run on the dollar could in theory leave the Treasury with much less than half the $11,000,000,000 of gold in hand that the law requires as a base for the cur rency in circulation. Ander son warned the House Ways and Means Committee, in bleak terms, that there was a serious risk of a real run on the dollar, if he continued to have to do all his re-financing with very short term, paper as at present. UNDER the compromise evolved in the Ways and Means Committee, Anderson will be able to issue long term bonds at higher rates of interest, but only when the President makes a special finding of national necessity, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Mills insisted upon centering political responsi bility on the President, be cause he blames the Eisen hower administration for his friend Anderson's great head ache, the persistent difficulty of selling long term bonds. , "Fiscal soundness" has been a great Republican cry. But there would be no budget- balancing problem today, as there would be much less in flationary pressure too, if former Secretary of the Treas ury George M. Humphrey had not opened the ball with a profligate $7,000,000,000 tax cut. Thereafter, Humphrey sought to solve the budgetary problem by' nibbling away at the national defense. Mean while Humphrey's Under Sec retary, Randolph Burgess, im potently allowed the average term of government paper to grow shorter and shorter. Nothing was done to reform the tax structure by elimin ating loopholes. Nothing was done, either, about the tax ex emption . on state and muni cipal bonds, so useful to very rich men, and so fatal to the Federal bond market. If all these matters had been differ ently handled, Mills argues with great cogency, Anderson would have no bond-headache today. As matters stand, how ever, no comprehensive at tack on the roots of trouble can be attempted until there is a new President, with new ideas and . new authority. Hence the Mills-Anderson compromise seemed the best and indeed the only way out. (Copyright 1959. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Stop Me Air Force Defensive About Operations; Congressmen Eye Unused A.F. Hospital By FRANK ELEAZER Washington (UPD - The Air Force says it's not true some body goofed in building the new Air Academy. In fact, the generals proudly told Congress the other day, this project has been handled just like Air Force work everywhere. That, ap parently, was just what the con gressmen Frank Eleazer iearea. Take, for example, the fine new hospital in the country side of Normandy, France. Rep. Melvln R. Laird (R Wis.) recalled that in 1955 this 1,000-bed hospital turned up among top priority pro- Radio Free Gromyko's Complaints Indicate By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor At Geneva, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko made as one of his major points a demand that Western broadcasts to listeners be-, hind the Iron Curtain be stilled. : It was a nign compliment to the Western radio voices which supply virtually the only news to Phil Newsom Iron Curtain peoples not sub- . Today fir Tomorrow By Walter POLITICAL GUESSING The latest returns in the Gallop poll continue to show a big majority for President E i s e n hower in the, White House and al most as big a majority for the Democrats in Congress. E i senhower's popu 1 a r i t y, which is 62 Walter c 1 lt1' Lippmann would mean in an election a huge land slide. The Democratic party's majority for Congress, which is 59 per cent, would be suf ficient on election day to give it an evep bigger majority in both Houses than the big ma jority it already has today. The Gallop poll is not infal lible. But in forecasting elec tions its range of error is never nearly so big that it would change the general con clusions. The country would vote now, as it did in 1956, for Eisenhower and a Demo cratic Congress. FOR 1960, the first question then is whether Eisen hower's popularity is personal and special to him, or whether it is, so to speak, "Republi can" and can be inherited by Nixon or Rockefeller. There is no sure answer. One can only guess. My guess is that for the Presidency there may well be a Republican majority brought together by two main popular beliefs and one politi' cal tradition. A majority of the people may think that the Republicans are more likely to avoid war than are the Demo crats. The second popular be lief is that with business booming, the Republicans are more likely to resist the in flation of prices and to keep taxes from rising. The third is the circum stance that because the Demo cratic party consists of several different factions, it has a sure majority only in Congres sional elections. For in them each faction can vote sepa rately for example for segre gation in Mississippi and against segregation in New York. These separate votes for factional representatives, when combined in Congress, are a large majority, cut when all the factions have to unite on one candidate for President, it is not at all cer tain that there is a sure Demo cratic majority. IF there is in fact some such Republican majority in the Presidential contest it is obvi ously a fragile and precarious majority. There are many more Democrats than there are Republicans, and this means that the Republican candidate must attract while the Democratic candidate re pels a great many Democrats something on the order of 10 per cent. This is not easy for the Republican candidate to do if the Democrats are able to compromise their worst differences on civil rights, are able to present a candidate who creates confidence in his ability to conduct foreign af fairs and who does not fright jects for the Air Force. Con gress put up the necessary millions, and about a year ago the hospital was finished. They built a nurses' home, barracks, and service clubs. They brought in the latest sur gical gear, X-ray machines, and other fancy equipment. Hospital Never Opened So Laird, on a tour of over seas bases a few weeks ago, dropped by to see how it worked out. He could hardly see the place for the weeds. "Do you mean the grass needed to be cut, or the build ing was unoccupied?" asked Rep. Charles R. Jones (R-N.C.) Both, Laird replied. There was nobody there but a few fellows manning a fire truck. The hospital had never been opened. "I tried to get some infor Europe Effective, ject to previous doctoring by Communist propagandists. For if the broadcasts had not been effective, Gromyko would not have been so insist ent in his demands. One of the most effective voices is Radio Free Europe which on July 4 goes into its 10th year as an organization devoted wholly to broadcasts 18 hours a day to Czechoslo vakia, Hungary, Poland, Ro mania and Bulgaria. Supported By Public RFE is a non-profit organ ization, a division of the Free Europe Committee, Inc., sup ported by public contributions lippmann en the taxpayers and those living on fixed incomes in cluding fixed salaries and wages. For while there may be a Republican majority for the Presidency, it can exist only when the Republican candi date can, like General Eisen hower, attract Democrats. This is critical for the choice between Nixon and llocke feller. NIXON's greatest weakness is that, having been a bit ter fighter against the Demo crats, he has acquired so many bitter enemies among the Democrats. Unless by a turn of fate he becomes President long enough before the elec tion to establish a new image of himself, he is the Republi can who most surely unites the Democrats. That is why the Democratic politicians so generally are hoping that Nix on will be nominated and are so deeply afraid that Rocke feller will be. What they fear in Rockefeller is, of course, his appeal, as shown in New York in 1958, to the Demo crats. In estimating Rockefeller's chances of being nominated, we must, however, bear in mind that Nixon has one enor mous advantage. It is very dangerous for the Republican professionals to oppose Nixon, dangerous for them even to wait too long to come out in favor of him. That is because of the possibility that Nixon may be President with all the patronage and the power of the White House at his dis posal. rrtflE main problem of the Democrats is an old one in American politics. It is that the leadership of the party is in Congress, and when that is the case, the capture of the Presidency is secondary to the holding on to the control of Congress. As a matter of fact, without being cynical about it, the Congressional leaders not only Senator Johnson and Speaker Ray burn, but the old gentlemen who are chairmen of most of the committees are much more important and powerful with a Republican in the White House than they would be with a Democrat. There is in them no urgency and pas sion about the Presidency. They can hear with tranquility the cries of the activist North ern Democrats who want to make a record in order to carry the Northern states for the Democratic candidate. What the- Congressional leaders will want in the Presi dential candidate of the Demo cratic party is first of all a man who will not be a liabil ity in any of the regions where Democrats are elected to Con gress. After that paramount consideration they will be looking for a winner. It is here that the national leaders outside of Congress will have to exert themselves to over come the bias of the Congres sional politicians, and to con verge on a candidate who could win because he is fitted to be President. (C) 1959. New York Herald Tribune Inc. mation as to whether there were any plans to use it dur ing this calendar year," Laird reported, "and there were no plans to use it during this cal endar, year and no plans to use it next year as far as any one knew." Brig. Gen. John K. Cullen, explaining things for the Air Force, said the trouble was, troop strength in France "has been markedly reduced" since the hospital plans were made. Reduced by how many men? asked Laird. Reduction Is Small He didn't know, Cullen said but he would find out. Later, he supplied this memo: "At the time construction contract for the hospital at Evreaux, France, was award ed, the existing Air Force military strength for France to Crusade For Freedom. The annual goal is $10 million, much of which comes through heavy contributions from American industry. An interesting phase of the operation not previously un derstood by this layman is RFE's check on its own audi ence reception. RFE people estimate that Soviet Russia and its satellites attempt to jam out their broadcasts from 225 different locations behind the Iron Cur tain, using between 1,500 and 2,000 transmitters. To overcome Soviet jam ming, RFE uses 28 transmit ters operating from Munich in West Germany and Lisbon in Portugal, beaming the pro grams in on some of the most powerful signals in the world. Most programs are availa ble at seven different points on the dial and all are re peated at least four times so that if one is missed it may be picked up again. Monitors Evalute Reception Monitors situated close to the Iron Curtain listen throughout the day and night, evaluating reception for each country. From these reoorts. RFE says it has been deter mined that 90 per cent of its programs can be heard satis factorily on one or more short wave frequencies. News is RFE's most import ant commodity Nearly 20 per cent of its' time is devoted to news com piled from such organizations as11 United Press International, and to commentaries by ex perts on the five countries to which the broadcasts are beamed. Other standard fare include disc jockeys and a theater pro gram whose efforts have ranged from "Sunrise at Campobello" to "My Fair Lady" and "Carousel." Labor programs analyze de velopments in the Soviet orbit from the point of view of the worker. Past and present ex periences of the labor move ment in the West are reported. WON'T HALT BROADCAST .London (DPD - The British government Wednesday re fused to halt a scheduled broadcast supporting birth control, despite protests from Roman Catholic leaders. The bishop of Southwark was to make the broadcast Aug. 23 to appeal for, funds for the Family Planning Asociation. Aoom from FRANK MORGAN - HAROLD DAY OR NIGHT u . . . was 19,851. The existing Air Force military strength in France as of March, 1959, was 19,766." Laird figured a difference of 85 persons. But Cullen said the hospital wouldn't be wasted. The Air Force now has a "tentative" plan to open it up, maybe even this summer or fall, for use of 150 beds. Meantime, we are keeping the fire engine ready. Rep. Harry R. Sheppard (R-Calif.) said let's talk some more .about the Air Force Academy, where the work has been handled like Air Force work everywhere." Academy Cost Soars " First he put in the record a report from government auditors, who claimed event ual cost of the academy, orig inally set at $125 million, has soared to $269,813,637. For this there were numer ous reasons, including, be sides rising prices, a golf course ($121,000); a display model, to show visitors before tne buildings were built ($98, 560); and aluminum shoe racks for the cadets $9,218). Sheppard, like Laird, has a long memory. Last year he asked about the big dining hall, -with glass walls on three sides. He wondered if the sun wouldn't keep the cadets in a sweat both morning and eve ning and if Congress wouldn't be asked later for thousands of dollars for drapes. Air Secretary James H. Douglas, he recalled, said there'd be no problem at all. A 21-foot overhang was to be built on the roof and drap eries would never be needed. So a year has passed, and Sheppard learns that $2,500 has been spent on drapes, with another $2,000 committed. And that's to cover only one wall. "Taking the testimony that we have had, and to which I have just referred," Sheppard said, "it makes me wonder just where we can hang our hats. . ." Look through that report again, Congressman Sheppard. Maybe it will show they've got hat racks. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although ader cer tain circumstances tne use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must nnt exceed 400 words Wants Reunion To the Editor: Attention Class of '46. Oh where are the "grads" of '46?! They passed thru the doors of Medford High To opportunities wide as the sky. Doctors, Lawyers, Merchants, Chiefs, Tailor, Ranchman, Sailor, Chemist, Airman too, these titles name a paltry few ' But scattered are last names we knew. Where's our class spirit? Let's show 'em howl We need a Reunion, Now! Now! Now! (These lines are from your own class poet, Who doesn't rhyme much and "Yes," she knows it.) C. Hawkins, formerly, C. Brault (Bro), 208 Summit ave., Medford. th Courthouse SNODGRASS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS PHONE SP 2-S0
